A username could be anything, but root is always root. Disabling the root password means a cracker needs to take the additional step of identifying a valid user account to target. Not a particularly large step, perhaps, but a step nonetheless.
A quick look at/etc/passwd and/etc/group would reveal which users had sudo access, so I don't see how disabling root does anything.
I don't know how, but I messed up when making the table. I reconfirmed the results with the ones I had written down and realized the Firefox 2.0.0.12 Mac OS X entry was incorrect. I've corrected the error. The actual value is 52%. So 3.0b3 is actually doing better than the current release.
Sorry about that error.
- Steven
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A username could be anything, but root is always root. Disabling the root password means a cracker needs to take the additional step of identifying a valid user account to target. Not a particularly large step, perhaps, but a step nonetheless.
A quick look at /etc/passwd and /etc/group would reveal which users had sudo access, so I don't see how disabling root does anything.
Two things: 1) The browser needs Javascript for it to work. (I did try IE 5.0, 4.01, 3.0, but none of them even came close) 2) Your name is awesome.
I don't know how, but I messed up when making the table. I reconfirmed the results with the ones I had written down and realized the Firefox 2.0.0.12 Mac OS X entry was incorrect. I've corrected the error. The actual value is 52%. So 3.0b3 is actually doing better than the current release. Sorry about that error. - Steven